List of gooseberries
# List of gooseberries

Gooseberry most often refers to cultivated plants from two species of the genus Ribes:

* Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.
* Ribes hirtellum, American gooseberry
* Hybrids between Ribes hirtellum and Ribes uva-crispa, including most of the modern gooseberry cultivars

The common name is also used for the following botanical groups.

## Ribes

Gooseberries may be used to describe the genus Ribes as a whole, or particular wild species of Ribes contrasted with currants, including:

* Ribes amarum, bitter gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes binominatum, trailing gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
* Ribes californicum, California gooseberry
* Ribes cynosbati, prickly gooseberry, native to eastern North America
* Ribes divaricatum, spreading gooseberry, native to western North America
* Ribes echinellum, Miccosukee gooseberry, native to Florida
* Ribes inerme, whitestem gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
* Ribes lacustre, swamp gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
* Ribes lasianthum, alpine gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes leptanthum, trumpet gooseberry, native to southwestern North America
* Ribes lobbii, gummy gooseberry, native to western North America
* Ribes marshallii, Hupa gooseberry, native to western North America
* Ribes menziesii, canyon gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes missouriense, Missouri gooseberry, native to eastern North America
* Ribes montigenum, mountain gooseberry, native to western North America
* Ribes oxyacanthoides, Canadian gooseberry, native to northern North America
* Ribes quercetorum, rock gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes roezlii, Sierra gooseberry, native to western North America
* Ribes sericeum, Lucia gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes speciosum, fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes thacherianum, Santa Cruz gooseberry, native to Santa Cruz Island, California
* Ribes tularense, Sequoia gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes velutinum, desert gooseberry, native to western North America
* Ribes viburnifolium, Island gooseberry, native to California
* Ribes victoris, Victor's gooseberry, native to California
* Missouri gooseberry, Ribes missouriense
* Santa Cruz Island gooseberry, Ribes thacherianum

## Plants unrelated to Ribes

Gooseberries may also be used to describe tropical plants producing fruit superficially similar to Ribes fruit. This includes:

* Byrsonima lucida, the "Long Key" gooseberry, native to the Caribbean
* Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis, native to Sri Lanka and southern India
* Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between deliciosa and other Actinidia species
* Curio herreanus, a succulent native to South America that superficially resembles gooseberry
* Pereskia aculeata, the Barbados gooseberry, an unusual cactus
* Within family Phyllanthaceae:
   * Phyllanthus emblica, the Indian gooseberry or emblic
   * Jamaican gooseberry tree, an herb-like plant
   * The "Star gooseberry", meaning either:
      * Phyllanthus acidus, the "Otaheite gooseberry", the only Phyllanthoideae with edible fruit, or
      * Sauropus androgynus, a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
* Within family Solanaceae:
   * Physalis angulata, also called balloon or cutleaf groundcherry
   * Physalis peruviana, Cape gooseberry, indigenous to South America and South Africa
* Withania somnifera, Poison gooseberry
